Not all water filter pitchers are created equal when it comes to removing toxins from harmful algal blooms. So says a new study led by Justin Chaffin, research coordinator at CFAES’s Stone Lab. Read the Ohio State press release.
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Meet the bees in your own backyard
CFAES’s Bee Lab is co-sponsoring three upcoming Bees in Your Backyard workshops by author and bee expert Olivia Carril, and a lecture and book signing, too. Nota bee-ne: The deadline to register for the workshops is May 18; for the lecture and book signing, June 4. Continue reading
Let’s celebrate Ohio’s trees, while staying alert to these threats to them (especially 2 new diseases)
A workshop offered on May 23 is meant to grow your love of trees — and also to try to protect them.
Woods, too, are good for pollinators. Learn how
A field full of native wildflowers is a fantastic place for pollinators. But a sun-speckled forest is too, say the organizers of an upcoming workshop on the topic.
Resilient communities in a changing climate?
Aaron Wilson
, atmospheric scientist with CFAES’s OSU Extension outreach arm and Ohio State’s Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, and Jiyoung Lee, associate professor with CFAES’s Department of Food Science and Technology and Ohio State’s College of Public Health, will be among the dozen-plus speakers at Building Resilient Communities in a Changing Climate, a daylong educational forum on May 18 on Ohio State’s Columbus campus. Admission is free and open to the public, includes lunch, but you have to register by May 14.
Get details and a link to register. (Photo: iStock.)
Where do bees do what they do?
CFAES scientist Reed Johnson presents “Where Are Honey Bees Foraging in Ohio?” from 9-10 a.m. May 16 as part of a webinar series hosted by the college’s Bee Lab. Watching the webinar is free; use the “Guest Login” at 8:55 a.m. Gather more information (scroll down). (Photo: iStock.)
‘Every Ohio State fan should have one’
Spring’s a great time for Buckeye nuts to plant their own source of buckeye nuts. Dig this story on how to do it on CFAES’s Stories website. (Photo: University Communications.)
Gonna make these gardens grow
CFAES’s two arboretums … arboreta … major plant collections are holding spring plant sales this weekend. Both sales usually draw hundreds of eager gardeners. Proceeds benefit the arboretums’ plantings and programs. Located in Columbus and Wooster, the tree- and flower-filled facilities are open to, are welcoming to and are happily used by the public.
Cool rides
Seen just now at the green car cruise-in at the Scarlet, Gray and Green Fair at CFAES Wooster: a red Chevy Bolt (electric, 238-mile range), a red Chevy Volt (extended range electric), a sharp white futuristic first-generation Nissan Leaf (electric), a cool space-pod-looking Mitsubishi i-MiEV (electric; range, about 60 miles), a red Ford C-MAX (gas-electric hybrid), CFAES scientist Fred Michel’s green Ford Escape hybrid with custom after-market roof-mounted solar panel, and a sleek dark-blue Tesla Model S 100D (electric, 351-mile range).
The fair and cruise-in go until 4 p.m. today. At 1 p.m., the parking lot, next to CFAES Wooster’s Fisher Auditorium, was filling fast but still had plenty of spaces. The food trucks smelled fantastic.
Green cars will cruise in on Thursday
CFAES Wooster’s Scarlet, Gray and Green Fair on Thursday will have, among other things, a green car cruise-in. You can check out a range of alternative-fuel cars and trucks — biogas, biodiesel, ethanol, electricity and hybrid systems — and talk to their owners, too. Among them should be a Tesla. (Photo: iStock.)